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... a remarkably comprehensive biography... Barsky makes Chomsky the person more visible than ever before. Michael G. Wessells , Contemporary Psychology [A] detailed and perceptive survey of Chomsky's life and work. Raphael Salkie , Times Higher Education Supplement For over thirty years Noam Chomsky has been a pathbreaking linguist and a controversial critic of American policies and politics. Indeed, the world seems to divide between those who revere and those who revile Chomsky. Both groups would find valuable Robert F. Barsky's appreciative biography; he recounts (the known and the little known) facts of Chomsky's life, evaluates his linguistic contribution and surveys the main quarrels. This is an essential book not only for Chomsky affecionados and adversaries, but for all students of American political and intellectual life. Russell Jacoby, UCLA

... a remarkably comprehensive biography... Barsky makes Chomsky the person more visible than ever before. --Michael G. Wessells, Contemporary Psychology [A] detailed and perceptive survey of Chomsky's life and work. --Raphael Salkie, Times Higher Education Supplement

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Inspired by the works and the milieus of Noam Chomsky, Robert Barsky works at the intersection of literature, law and language theory, where he explores, among other issues, the challenges faced by vulnerable peoples including refugees, homeless people and undocumented migrants. He is currently working on a book about the radical Zionist organization Avukah, and he is completing a project that reviews canonical works from the Great Tradition through the perspective of vulnerable migrants.He is the author of Noam Chomsky- A Life of Dissent, The Chomsky Effect- A Radical Works Beyond the Ivory Tower, and Zellig Harris- From American Linguistics to Socialist Zionism, all three published by the MIT Press.

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